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  • WATCH: Trump announces plan for rare earth elements strategic reserve

    WATCH: Trump announces plan for rare earth elements strategic reserve

    Feb 03, 2026 12:01 AM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to deploy nearly $12 billion to create a strategic reserve of rare earth elements, a stockpile that could counter China's ability to use its dominance of these hard to process metals as leverage in trade talks. Watch President Donald Trump's announcement in ...

  • WATCH: Trump says he's not ripping down the Kennedy Center, 'we're using the structure' to renovate

    WATCH: Trump says he's not ripping down the Kennedy Center, 'we're using the structure' to renovate

    Feb 02, 2026 11:50 PM EST

    Recalling his past career in construction and real estate, Trump said, “you want to sit with something for a little while before you decide on what you want to do.” Speaking of the Kennedy Center, he said: “We sat with it. We ran it. It's in very bad shape ...

  • News Wrap: Trump pushes House to pass funding package amid partial shutdown

    News Wrap: Trump pushes House to pass funding package amid partial shutdown

    Feb 02, 2026 11:40 PM EST

    ... Russia's of Vladimir Putin to pause strikes for a week because of the cold, but that halt was due to have expired yesterday. President Trump says he's cutting tariffs on India from 25 percent to 18 percent. In a social media post, Trump said the change comes after ...

  • Trump announces 2-year closure of Kennedy Center after multiple cancellations by artists

    Trump announces 2-year closure of Kennedy Center after multiple cancellations by artists

    Feb 02, 2026 11:35 PM EST

    ... can recover? Fmr. Rep. Barbara Comstock: Well, I certainly hope it doesn't come to that. But, listen, they have been -- my understanding is Donald Trump has been out there shaking down the community for money. So what has been -- who's been giving money to this right now? What ...

  • NATO's credibility as a unified force under U.S. leadership has taken a hit under Trump

    NATO's credibility as a unified force under U.S. leadership has taken a hit under Trump

    Feb 02, 2026 05:47 PM EST

    ... as he contemplated the possibility that "one NATO member is going to attack another NATO member."Russian state media mocked Europe's "impotent rage" over Trump's designs on Greenland, and Putin's presidential envoy declared that "trans-Atlantic unity is over." Doubt about U.S. troops U.S. Defense ...

  • Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips Republican state Senate seat Trump won by 17 points

    Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips Republican state Senate seat Trump won by 17 points

    Feb 02, 2026 04:00 PM EST

    ... of New York City, a Democratic stronghold that saw the highest voter turnout in a mayor's race in 50 years. The showings come as Trump's approval ratings with the public hold steady at around 40%. A January AP-NORC poll found that a majority of U.S. adults ...

  • Judge blocks additional citizenship provisions in latest setback to Trump's wide-ranging election executive order

    Judge blocks additional citizenship provisions in latest setback to Trump's wide-ranging election executive order

    Feb 02, 2026 03:41 PM EST

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked certain federal agencies from requesting citizenship status when distributing voter registration forms, the latest blow to a wide-ranging executive order on elections President Donald Trump signed last year. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington ruled that the ...

  • How music's biggest stars protested Trump's immigration crackdown at the Grammys

    How music's biggest stars protested Trump's immigration crackdown at the Grammys

    Feb 02, 2026 03:32 PM EST

    ... said. "There’s like a million reasons for people not to do it.” Artists might also face personal dangers themselves. Morales Rocketto pointed to the Trump administration's threats to place ICE agents at the upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance by Bad Bunny, “one of the most invincible” entertainers in ...

  • Trevor Noah draws Trump's ire after Grammys jokes about the president, Nicki Minaj

    Trevor Noah draws Trump's ire after Grammys jokes about the president, Nicki Minaj

    Feb 02, 2026 02:58 PM EST

    “Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. WRONG!!! I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false and defamatory, statement, have never been accused being there, not ...

  • Kennedy Center to close for 2 years for renovations in July, Trump says, after wave of cancellations

    Kennedy Center to close for 2 years for renovations in July, Trump says, after wave of cancellations

    Feb 02, 2026 02:56 PM EST

    Since Trump returned to the White House, the Kennedy Center is one of many Washington landmarks that he has sought to overhaul in his second term. He demolished the East Wing of the White House and launched a massive $400 million ballroom project, is actively pursuing building a triumphal arch ...

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